4-0180 TECHNOLOGY TIDEMARKS & CULTURAL TRACES: INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AND HUMAN CREATIVITY IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD

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Friday, November 18, 2011: 08:00-09:45

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Students, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Jennie E Burnet (University of Louisville) and Hager A El Hadidi (Bloomsburg University)

Chairs: Jennifer W Nourse (University of Richmond)

Discussants: James Peacock (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Ted Swedenburg (University of Arkansas)

08:00

Healing the Cosmopolitan Through Cell Phones In Indonesia and Abroad

Jennifer W Nourse (University of Richmond and University of Richmond)

08:15

Friendships On-Line In Lima: Social Networking Out of Poverty and Across Class lines

Amy M Mortensen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

08:30

Traces of Egyptian Culture In a Globalized World: Wireless Connections with Invisible Saints and Visible Symbols

Hager A El Hadidi (Bloomsburg University)

08:45

Buying (Into) Modernity: Cell Phones, Ritualized Exchange, and Commodified Social Capital In Rwanda

Jennie E Burnet (University of Louisville)

09:00

Discussant

James Peacock (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

09:15

Discussant

Ted Swedenburg (University of Arkansas)

09:30

Discussion

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